Zenit St Petersburg wins European Super Cup

Zenit St. Petersburg beat Manchester United 2-1 to win the European Super Cup for the first time on Friday. Pavel Pogrebnyak put Zenit ahead a minute before halftime from close range after Igor Denisov flicked on a corner from Alejandro Dominguez. Danny, signed for a Russian record US$44 million from Dynamo Moscow, added the second goal in the 59th when he drifted past two defenders and beat goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar with a low shot.Nemanja Vidic pulled a goal back in the 73rd after good work by Carlos Tevez down the left. United midfielder Paul Scholes was shown a second yellow card and sent off in injury time for punching the ball into the net.

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Manchester United (4-4-2): 1-Edwin Van der Sar ; 2-Gary Neville (6-Wes Brown 76), 5-Rio Ferdinand, 15-Nemanja Vidic, 3-Patrice Evra; 8-Anderson (22-John O'Shea 60), 17-Nani, 18-Paul Scholes, 24-Darren Fletcher (13-Park Ji-sung 60); 10-Wayne Rooney, 32-Carlos Tevez

Zenit St Petersburg (3-4-3): 16-Vyacheslav Malafeev; 22-Alexander Anyukov, 4-Ivica Krizanac (2-Vladislav Radimov 71), 28-Sebastien Puygrenier (15-Roman Shirokov 62); 11-Radek Sirl, 27-Igor Denisov, 44-Anatoly Tymoschuk, 18-Konstantin Zyrianov; 7-Alejandro Dominguez (10-Andrei Arshavin 46), 8-Pavel Pogrebnyak, 19-Danny.

Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)